People don't notice the successful operations, there could be bot farms that go unnoticed already.
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> Keychain helps you to manage SSH and GPG keys in a convenient and secure manner. It acts as a frontend to ssh-agent and ssh-add, but allows you to easily have one long running ssh-agent process per system, rather than the norm of one ssh-agent per login session.
> This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase. With keychain, you only need to enter a passphrase once every time your local machine is rebooted.
> The idea that 'Ruby Methods Are Colorless' is intriguing. It seems to suggest that methods in Ruby lack inherent complexity, which aligns with the language's philosophy of simplicity and readability. Ruby's method names are often so intuitive that they don't obscure the functionality behind a facade of complexity, making the code feel 'colorless' in a good way—clear and transparent. Anyone else feel like this makes Ruby especially appealing for both beginners and seasoned developers?
Apart from the telltale signs of an LLM, it's so unlikely someone would write a long and grammatically correct comment that was completely unrelated to what the article was about.
In some problems, the hard part isn't programming, it's everything else. At least with technical problems you can implement the recipe or streaming site and you're done. But payments was a human problem, requiring people to deal with government, regulation, accounting, etc.
> The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.
> The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way.
> Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists. It sounds obvious to say you should only work on problems that exist. And yet by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.
His article Schlep Blindness [1] is good too.
> There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.
> The most striking example I know of schlep blindness is Stripe, or rather Stripe's idea. For over a decade, every hacker who'd ever had to process payments online knew how painful the experience was. Thousands of people must have known about this problem. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events. Why? Why work on problems few care much about and no one will pay for, when you could fix one of the most important components of the world's infrastructure? Because schlep blindness prevented people from even considering the idea of fixing payments.
[0] https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html [1] https://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
In this case, hate is attention that helps algorithms. It's why shortform media is usually inflammatory, you get more engagement out of it.
Hate and other powerful emotions are a good sign, they can promote you to people who don't hate you.
I write dumb simple cli tools for myself. How to do either of these things?
> YouTube's parent company Google was ordered by federal investigators to quietly hand over all such viewer data for the period of Jan. 1 to Jan. 8, 2023, but Forbes couldn't confirm if Google had complied.
Another reason to be cautious about giving services your phone number.
> [0] Not many realize this, but a telephone number is one instant, low-cost API call to a data broker away from your name, physical address, associated/other email addresses, date of birth, etc.
[0] https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-c...
alias tail='echo "use toolong instead"
How do they do this jedi mind trick?
Maybe not in this century. If you told a medieval farmer that in the future millions of people fly throughout the sky inside giant hunks of metal he wouldn't believe you either.